The meaning and proverb of Qingming thank you.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, which is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, after the winter solstice 106. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight major festivals in a year" in China, which usually falls around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar, and the festival is very long. There are two sayings: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10, and these 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally meant grave-sweeping day, and the government of the Republic of China designated 15 days after the vernal equinox in 935 as a national holiday, also known as the national grave-sweeping day.

Second, proverbs related to Qingming

1, the Qingming rains one after another, and one sorghum hits one liter.

2. The weather is clear, sunny and Grain Rain is continuous.

3, Qingming rare sunny, Grain Rain rare cloudy.

It snows continuously in Tomb-Sweeping Day and frosts continuously in Grain Rain.

5, Qingming no rain and drought Huangmei, Qingming rainy Huangmei.

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Dietary customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day:

1, eat prickly heat

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world.

Northern prickly heat is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; The southern prickly heat is exquisitely made, mainly rice and flour. In ethnic minority areas, there are many kinds of prickly heat with different flavors, especially in Uygur, Dongxiang, Naxi and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

2, eat Qingming snail

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best time to eat snails. Because at this time, the snails have not yet propagated, and they are the most plump and plump, so there is a saying that "the snails in Qingming are worth a goose".

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